Hair-drier-heater ignition device



July 8 1924. 1,500,648

L. B. SIMONSON HAIR DRIER HEATER IGNITION DEVICE Filed July 13. 1923 3 gitudinal section,

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' LEO B. SIMONSON, OF NEW] YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-DRIER-HEATER IGNITION DEVICE. 1 r151 Application filed' July 13,

To all whom it may concern.

1 3e it known that I, LEO B. SIMONSON, a citlzen of the United States, residing at New ork, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair Drier- Heater Ignition Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates generally to hair drylng machines of the type in which a rotary fan is used to create a blast of air which is directed through a suitable nozzle, the invention having for an object the provision of means whereby the air is heated. For further comprehension of the invention, and of the object and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set fort Fig. 1 of the drawings is a face view of a hair drier having the invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a detail elevation, partly in lonof the ignition device for the burner.

Fig. 4 is a side elevational view indicating the novel ignition device applied to a heater for curling irons.

Referring now to the drawing the reference numeral indicates an electric motor which is mounted on a suitable portable stand or pedestal 11 and which drives a fan or blower 12 contained in a casing 13 fixed 44 to the motor casing. The air is discharged through a tube 15 which has a nozzle extension 16 hinged thereto as at 17, the air being drawn into the blower through an axial opening in the casing 13.

Fixed to the side of the casing through which the air enters is a supplementary housing 19 having a number of apertures 20 therein for the passage of the air, this housing enclosing a gas burner 22 in the form of a suitably perforated and spirally connects outside the casing to a supply pipe 23, a suitable control valve being provided on the latter. The air drawn into the blower by the fan will be heated by a burner coil so as the burner 22 the openings 20 in the housin 19 being preferably in registry with the to have the air pass in contact with the flame of the burner.

For ready, ignition of the burner and to do g gas.

1923. Serial No. 651,282.

away with the need of using matches I have provided a novel form of ignition device which works by the friction of a metal element on a suitable sparking material. This device comprises a bar 25 which is freely pivoted at one end on a stud 26 on the easing 13 outside the housing 19, and which when in use extends into the latter through an arcuate slot 27 in-the cylindrical wall thereof. Mounted freelyona stub shaft 28 in a longitudinal slot 25 in the said bar near the opposite end thereof, is a wheel 29 having a serrated or roughened periphery against which bears astick 30 of sparking or pyritic material Which is slidable in a longitudinal passage 31 in 1s pressed against the wheel by a s i 32 The end of this passage may be closed by a screw 33 by turning which adjustment of the spring may be effected.

Fixed co-axially to the wheel 29 is a ratchet wheel 35 which is engaged by a spring pressed pawl 36 carried by one end of a lever 37 fulcrumed between its ends on the shaft 28 and having a link 38 connected to its opposite end. This link extends along under the bar 25 and is connected at its other end to a trigger member 40 in the form of an arm shaped at its lower end in the form of a finger grip as at 41 and hinged at its upper end as at 42 in a recess 43 in the bar, the walls of the recess acting to limit the swinging movement of the lever. Connected at one end to this arm 40, and at its opposite end to the bar 25, is a tension spring A second arm 47 is fulcrumed between its ends to a lug 48 depending from the bar and has its lower end in the form of a finger grip 49 complementary to the finger grip 41 and its upper end in the form of a tooth 50 adapted to be engaged in a notch or socket 51 on the stud 26, a tension spring 52 normally holding the tooth away from the notch.

Normally the bar 25 remains out of the housing, but when the burner is to be started it is swung upward until the tooth 50 engages in the notch 51 and is held in this position while the trigger element 40 is worked to rotate the wheel 29 and ignite the When this is accomplished the members 40 and 47 are released and the bar drop down from the housing 19, and may rest on a lug 55 fixed to the casing 13.

In Fig. 4 I have indicated the novel igthe bar and which nition device. applied to a heater for curling irons which comprises a casing 60 containing a burner and supported by the pipe 61 leading to said burner, the whole being hinged to the wall as at 62 to swing from one side to the other. The iron to be heated is placed on top of the casing 60.

Having thus described my invention what 1 claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. In a device of the class described, a

I burner, a bar hinged at one end adjacent on the sa1d bar adjacent the hinged thereof adjacent the said-burnerwhile the said trigger element is being worked.

2. In a device of the class described, a

burner, a bar hinged at one end adjacent said burner to swing vertically toward and away from said burner, a stud on which said bar is hinged, said stud having a I socket formed therein, a pyritic ignition device carried by the other end of said bar, a trigger element on saidbar a short distance from the hinged end thereof for operating said ignition device, and an arm element fulcrumed on the said bar adjacent the hinged end thereofand having on one end a tooth adapted to releasably engage to hold the bar in position with the free end thereof adjacent the said burner whilevthe said trigger element is being worled,vand a spring connected to said arm element and normally retaining the latter in position with its tooth free of the said socket.

, In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature. I V

LEO'B. siMo soN.

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